This was an idea that came up on IRC - essentially UTP would be an extension that would correct errors occuring in the XML (ie, balance errors). There would normally be two concurrent releases, one for the current stable version, at the time of this posting, that would be 1.01, and one for the current beta version, which at this time is 1.04. Generally the stable version patches are of greater priority.

It would also be nice to have a UNID slot in the official space to be reserved for this mod (Ie, 0xA000) - in which case as on official extension, it would be the Official transcendence patch

For one thing domina powers don't recharge in 1.04. Things like that could use a patch. or the adventurer outfitters making ammo after being destroyed, or the intCorporateOnInit error when docking with a certain station (I can't remember which).

Why live with the bugs when we can fix them before the next release, and help George at the same time?

I do think that is the point of the patches, that they could be simply imported to the game to provide added features or such, and we can do a 'pull request' where we can get our work integrated into transcendence.